Sports

Lesli Woodall beats Gabe Jolly, wins gift card to Mac’s Daniel Island

Lesli Woodall, who scored 9-3 this week, won the tiebreaker to beat Gabe Jolly of Carolina One Real Estate, who had a 6-6 record. Lesli works from home for LexisNexis Risk Solutions as a product manager and lives on Daniel Island with her husband of almost 34 years. She and her husband...

Cold weather fishing is red hot

As Christmas approaches and the temperature drops, the winter fishing season is just heating up. Many anglers stop fishing when the weather gets cold. Those people are missing out on some really hot fishing. Inshore, trout are in large schools near depth transitions. Redfish have also...

Stephens, Sakkari added to Credit One field

Maria Sakkari and Sloane Stephens have committed to the 2024 Credit One Charleston Open, the largest women’s-only professional tennis tournament in North America, March 30-April 7, 2024, on Daniel Island. Named WTA 500 Tournament of the Year, the Charleston Open is the annual clay season kickoff...

Crashing the boards: Iron Horses rebound with 4-1 start

Will history repeat itself? The Philip Simmons High School boys basketball team hopes the answer is yes as the 2023-24 season unfolds. Two seasons ago, the Iron Horses competed in a preseason tournament hosted by Georgetown High School, and gained victories over Waccamaw and...

Fast break: Bishop boys open 2023-2024 basketball season 4-1

Bishop England High School boys’ basketball coach Bryan Grevey is closing in on a milestone. But if you know the venerable veteran of the hardwood, you know his story is about the players and not himself. Grevey is closing in on 200 career victories, and if the team’s fast start is any...

Cantey steps down as BE’s football coach to focus on family

John Cantey resigned as the Bishop England High School football coach Monday afternoon, and then spent the night coaching his son’s flag-football team. The 49-year-old Cantey, who has been connected to the Battling Bishops’ program ever since he could walk, will focus on his family just a...

Gary Miller beats Mingledorff and Patterson, wins gift card to the New York Butcher

Gary Miller and several other participants scored 9-3, just enough to slide by Mingledorff and Patterson Attorneys at Law’s score of 8-4. Not only did Gary tie with his score, he also tied in the tiebreaker. He then won the draw. Gary and his wife, Ella, moved to Daniel Island permanently in...

Fishing club and fish-finding dog elevate your fishing experience

The Daniel Island Inshore Fishing Club held its annual holiday party Dec. 1. It was a great event. Lots of friends, food, and fishing stories. While at the event, I was asked several times if Brody (the amazing fish-finding and stock-trading dog) actually helps me to find fish. My response was...

Coach Runey returns with plans to develop a top-shelf team

Last year, Bishop England High School icon Paul Runey announced the 2022-23 academic would be his last as the school’s athletic director. He also pondered calling it a career as the girls’ basketball coach. But Runey, who has been at the school for more than 50 years in some capacity,...

Iron Horse girls basketball team touts size and versatility

February 18, 2023, was the end of an era as the Philip Simmons High School girls basketball faithful knew it. It was on that night that Crestwood brought the Iron Horses’ season to an end with a victory in a Class AAA Sweet 16 game. Philip Simmons said goodbye to three players who had been...